Maths Resources (page 48)

21/10/13 Many of our students are now preparing for mock exams. These are very important, not only for practice at the `real thing`, but also to identify areas of real difficulty and...

These guys like to talk about maths. Not that they know much about it, but that doesnt stop one from pretending to know, does it? You would know quite a few people like that. So the o...

Imagine you loan a bank the principal P = 10000 $ at an interest rate of i = 5 %. This is the amount of interest you would receive with simple interest, given the duration t of the lo...

No rectangular solids on the new test? Now what?! In my very first session yesterday about using fruit to teach math for the new GED Test, educators got their hands on the 2014 Mat...

Every student at every grade level has one or more class subjects that do not come easy. The difficult subjects require more work, energy, and time in order to do well in the class. T...

An interesting correlation was found by the parody religion FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster). Deducting causation here would be madness. Over the 18th and 19th century, piracy, the one ...

Times Table is simply Repeated Addition. If you are learning the 4 times table, keep adding 4 each time to the previous answer. For example: 4 X 1 = 4 4 X 2 = 8 (4+4)...

Q: In a seminar, the ratio of the number of men to the number of women was 2:3. On the following day, two more men attended the seminar. The ratio became 5:6. How many participants we...

Many people are unable to make a connection between the numbers on the paper and what they do on a daily basis. People use a lot of what they were taught in school without even thinki...

TOP 5 EXAM TIPS. By Amit Gandhi Here are some of my top tips for being successful in exams. 1) Know what is expected of you. This can be done by reading the specification and goin...